http://i.imgur.com/0mmwSrm.jpg
Europa
http://i.imgur.com/Wd9E20b.jpg
Ganymede
http://i.imgur.com/UV6JOfe.jpg
Andromeda Galaxy
Sunset on Mars. Real atmosphere colors, haze
http://i.imgur.com/vvbB0YP.jpg
First photographed spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, 1965
http://i.imgur.com/cD93JRV.jpg
The Eagle Nebula (this thing is huge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
http://i.imgur.com/mt8sywF.jpg
It's funny how ingrained certain colors have become for planets. Because of school, encyclopedias and pictures from the past Mercury is always red, Venus is green, Earth is blue and so on.
On this chart of actual pictures, Mercury is the top left....
http://i.imgur.com/ioPegDM.png
Sometimes it feels so unfair to be living today. We see evidence of all these wondrous things, we know they exist, yet we'll never live to see them up close, we'll never get to travel out to where they are. We can only leave what we know to the future generations so that they can advance and improve things and they can get out to where we'll never be able to go.
I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did, I'd want to be reborn in that future technological age where the human race has mastered travel in the cosmos.
You should watch the companion video "star size comparison hd top 10 comments". He has some pretty cool junk in there.
http://i.imgur.com/lsN3vrK.png
Pluto
http://i.imgur.com/nDEGQd8.png
Charon, one of Pluto's moons
what are the extra 3 items on the right? :-k
Probably the dwarf planets found in the Kuiper belt where Pluto is located (Eris, Makemake, and Haumea). Although not including Ceres in between Mars and Jupiter makes no sense if they're including the other dwarfs.
and also only the earths moon :hand:
That's true, they only included Earth's moon, but Jupiter's Ganymede and Saturn's Titan are both larger than Mercury, and Pluto's Charon is large enough to be included (scientist's are still arguing whether or not to reclassify Charon as a dwarf planet, and it's been argued for years that Pluto and Charon form a binary planetary system), so why not include them in the picture? It doesn't make any logical sense to leave them all out.
:obama:
There are actually 7 moons in the solar system that are larger than Pluto, including Ganymede and Titan. Those larger than Pluto but smaller than Mercury include our moon and also Jupiter's Callisto, Io, and Europa, and Neptune's Triton... so those 4 should probably be in the picture too.
[-(
That's discrimination against other moons of the solar system. What are you going to do next? Make them sit at the back of the bus?
https://i.imgur.com/kgLPgF9.jpg
Titania is Uranus' largest moon.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/c35208f20...77mo1_1280.jpg
The largest ones. It's definitely not exhaustive considering both Jupiter and Saturn have greater than 60 each.
Yep some of those moons are huge....."that's not a moon" :shock:
In Porky's graphic it shows how big Saturn is when compared to Jupiter. Growing up I always envisioned Jupiter as dwarfing every other planet...which it pretty much does except in Saturn's case.
interesting fun fact: Uranus comes before Neptune :tup:
http://i.imgur.com/p2wlw5P.jpg
Enceladus
That would be a very cool view to see in person.
Amazing
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...11294131_o.jpg
Earth as seen from the new Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The image is the first to show the entire sunlit side of the Earth since astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission captured one of the most famous photographs ever taken in 1972. The photo is unstitched, unlike "full disk" weather satellite photos.
I find photos like the one above a little unsettling when you can see where your city is :oops:
*waves at Porky*
Another thing that becomes apparent when they don't stitch photos is just how much of the Earth is covered in water and where the actual land masses sit. We're quite high up on the planet comparative to flat maps that show continents spread out horizontally in an even distribution from top to bottom.
Is that Deep Space Climate Observatory below the equator?
:-k